Everybody else seems to be providing my $sub = eval "sub { $code }";. I've never used this method; heck, I've never even thought of doing it that way. It just seems unnatural to me to have it strung along in that manner. I do it the other way around: my $sub = sub { eval $code };. Besides, doing it this way allows for simpler error handling.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $code = q{ open( my $fh, '<', 'foo.txt' ) or die("open failed: $!")
+ };
my $sub = sub { eval($code) or die("error in eval(): $@"); };
$sub->();
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The obvious downside is that this will only work for anonymous subs, and not named ones. The only way I can think of doing anything near 'named subs' is to abuse references, which is ugly:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $code = q{ open( my $fh, '<', 'foo.txt' ) or die("open failed: $!")
+ };
my $sub = sub { eval($code) or die("error in eval(): $@"); };

my $sub_name = 'do_this';

{
    no warnings 'once';
    no strict qw(refs vars);
    $$sub_name = $sub;
    $do_this->();
}
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